Category: Beverages

It’s Sunday night. You can be of two minds right now. Apprehensive about the week ahead and the many tasks it entails. Or as pleased as the cat that got the cream with the weekend that’s been. It’s your choice. You may even be lucky enough to have a wondiferous week ahead and be feeling just plain good about everything. Sunday nights can fulfil many purposes, however they are not for wallowing. If you’re anxious about the coming week, or forlornly pondering why it has to be that the weekend is over, pick something good that’s happened in the last two days and use it to perk your up your last few hours until that Monday morning menace of an alarm goes off. So what’s it going to be? This Choco-Banana Smoothie is mine. Continue reading →

I never thought I would be one to jump on the green smoothie bandwagon. It resided in the realm of healthy-but-too-weird. Sure I’m smitten with banana smoothies, particularly if they contain a dash of nutmeg and cinnamon. Berry smoothies are blissful and the colour alone is enough to brighten ones day. Mango, passionfruit, papaya…all fine with me. But a smoothie that is green and has vegetables in it? I think I’ll pass, thank you very much. I strongly believe that you should never judge a book by its cover, yet the words green and smoothie just don’t correlate in my head. Surely it must be some kind of evil witchy brew? Or at least like the medicine that mum used to force-feed you, extremely good for you but awful all the same. I was positive that green vegetables and smoothies should not exist on the same wavelength. Just no. That was until I chided myself for being a chicken and decided to take the jump. In recent times their popularity has skyrocketed, and that either means that everyone has taken leave of their senses and transformed into green smoothie monsters, or heaven forbid, they actually taste pretty good. Continue reading →

After my first experience with chai I was positive that I would never be a fan. It was on my second last day in Kenya at café situated in a very western shopping mall (sadly it just highlights how our western influences are slowly – and sometimes not so slowly – permeating every corner of the earth). I figured where better to try chai for the first time than a nation whose food is heavily influenced by Indian cuisine? Unfortunately, the drink in question was lacking in flavour and sickly sweet. So much so that I struggled to finish it, which is saying something as I pride myself in not being a fussy eater. By that point I was on my last few Kenyan shillings, therefore it was disappointing to see them disappear on such an ordinary beverage. The memory sticks out as it was one of the only ‘negative’ encounters that I experienced during my five weeks in Kenya. Is it too strange to say that the chai was more mood-dampening than my brush with typhoid? It probably is, but after hearing so much praise about chai I had very high (and perhaps unreasonable) expectations. Continue reading →

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